By The Opinion
01 Oct 2024, 18:57 PM EDT
The United Nations Security Council will meet emergency this Wednesday to discuss the situation in the Middle East, according to the British mission on its social networks.
“The UN Security Council will meet tomorrow on the situation in the Middle East“, indicates the message in X, adding that the United Kingdom condemns “in the strongest terms” Iran’s attack on Israel and calls for an “immediate” ceasefire.
Iran had requested a meeting of the Council on Saturday, after the salvo of Israeli attacks against southern Lebanon and today Israel did so, after suffering an attack with nearly 200 ballistic missions launched from Iran.
Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, promised to respond to Iran’s attack and assured that “it is going to be painful.”
This was Iran’s second attack against Israel since it first attacked Israeli territory last April in another series of missile and drone bombings.
At par, the organization itself and in the midst of the growing conflict between Lebanon and Israel, detailed that Security Council resolution 1701 is being analyzedwhich has aimed to maintain peace between the two countries for almost 20 years.
Diplomats have repeatedly referenced Security Council Resolution 1701 in official meetings and in the hallways during the hectic high-level week of the General Assembly debate at UN headquarters, as well as after the debate ended. .
These allusions come as attacks intensify between Israel and Hezbollah, an armed group that maintains with its allies 62 of the 128 democratically elected seats in Lebanon’s parliament.
Adopted unanimously in 2006, the goal of resolution 1701 remains to end hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, since in it the Council requests a permanent ceasefire based on the creation of a buffer zone.
In the resolution, The Council decided to take measures to ensure peace, including authorizing an increase in the strength of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) up to a maximum of 15,000 troops who would, among other things, monitor the cessation of hostilities, support the Lebanese armed forces as Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon, and ensure the safe return of displaced people.
The United Nations mission, which the Council had established in 1978, would also continue its annually renewed mandate.
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